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SEVENTY-THIRD DAY—EVENING SESSION.
The Convention met at 8 o'clock.
Mr. Merrick submitted the following, which was
adopted:
Ordered, That this Convention adjourn sine die at noon
on Saturday, August 17.
The Convention then resolved itself into committee of
the whole and took up the third section of the report of
the committee on public works, relating to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal.
Mr. Jones had been a representative upon this floor
during various sessions since 1832. He did not agree
with his friend from Harford, (Mr. Archer, ) that it
would have been better to have sold out the State's in-
terest in the inception for $250, 000. Every citizen of
Maryland was in some sense a stockholder in this work.
The plan of separate commissioners to superintend the
work has been tried and failed. It is likely to occur in
any plan that may be adopted that the management of
this work must be more or less mixed up in politics. The
question is whether a change of management can be
made by which the bondholders and other creditors may
be paid, and the State's interest secured. He was in favor
of striking out the third section and inserting a pro-
vision retaining the State control, but giving a represen-
tation to the bondholders and other creditors.
The committee then rose, and reported the following
substitutes for the action of the Convention:
By Mr. Gill:
Section 3. For the purpose of prosecuting efficiently
the working of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal—of pre-
venting any partisan or political management thereof,
and for the further purpose of so regulating the tolls as
will produce a fair and just remuneration to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company—the following persons
be, and are hereby, appointed commissioners, to serve
without compensation, except for traveling expenses,
viz: —————, who, and their successors, to be selected as
hereinafter mentioned, or a majority of whom or of their
successors, shall be authorized and empowered, until the
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